Fitted rear corner chequer plate things, really stiffed up the corners and looks great too.

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i finished waxoyling it i bought 11 litres of the stuff and im pretty sure 10 made it onto car the rest made it onto my clothes hair front window of house and indespension trailer looks good tho well the car does anyway
 
Usual stuff that I do on a Sunday, cleaned and checked all levels under bonnet, also hit 74mph on the speedo today, not sure what speed it was doing, because the 265/75 tyres have thrown the speedo miles out, maybe around 80mph? :D it felt fast anyway :D
 
Usual stuff that I do on a Sunday, cleaned and checked all levels under bonnet, also hit 74mph on the speedo today, not sure what speed it was doing, because the 265/75 tyres have thrown the speedo miles out, maybe around 80mph? :D it felt fast anyway :D

about 84mph :D
 
On 31's me Disco reads absolutely bang on at between 55 and 75 .. slightly slower above, slightly faster below .. ;)
 
According to me pratnav my disco's speedo is under reading approx 5mph at an indicated 60mph. pratnav was showing 65mph :eek:

On 265/75/16's

I don't really know if I can ever trust a satnav, 10% bigger tyres will make your speedo under read by 10% So I'd say at a registered 74, about 80 or just over, I'd say my 265's are more than 10% bigger than the standard tyres on my Defender, but how accuarte was the speedo with standard tyres? :rolleyes: Lets just say 80ish :D
 
We've got quite a few of those speed monitoring displays around Staffordshire that tell you how fast you're going on approach.
My speedo seems to be spot-on - assuming they're calibrated properly etc. :D

Running 235/85/16 Special Tracks.
 
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We've got quite a few of those speed monitoring displays around Staffordshire that tell you how fast you're going on approach.
My speedo seems to be spot-on - assuming they're calibrated properly etc. :D

Running 235/85/16 Special Tracks.

nah they lie, I allus rely on me satnav for my spped as car speedos are designed to "over read" by upto 7% IIRC. whereas a sat nav on a level road at a constant speed is allus bang on.
 
We've got quite a few of those speed monitoring displays around Staffordshire that tell you how fast you're going on approach.
My speedo seems to be spot-on - assuming they're calibrated properly etc. :D

Running 235/85/16 Special Tracks.

265/75/16 are 803.9mm

235/85/16 are 805.9mm

So give or take they are pretty much the same, I have seen on of those speed monitors too when there was temporary roadworks, but when I was doing 40mph registered it said I was doing 36mph, calibrated by a monkey over here it seems :doh: :D
 
nah they lie, I allus rely on me satnav for my spped as car speedos are designed to "over read" by upto 7% IIRC. whereas a sat nav on a level road at a constant speed is allus bang on.


Then the speedo on our locos at work must lie too as there is one we always set off in Sutton Coldfield which reads bang-on what speed we're doing.

Always seem to hit that stretch of line at 34mph, regardless of what weight we've got on... :scratching_chin:
 
took the rear lock off my series door and fitted it to my mates defender.
exactly the same lock, amazing. (changed barrel n'orl)
 
Continued the install of a ham radio transceiver, antenna is done and the unit is set up and working, just got to install radio unit, site the remote head properly (blu-tac for the test-run today) and get the electrickery sorted (running off a separate power pack at the mo for convenience).
 

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